Note: This article was written by Pastor Keith Speaks of Hales Corners, Wisconsin. It was written at the request of GenerousChurch after Hales Corners Lutheran Church gave away an entire weekend’s offering as they integrated generosity as a keyRead more…
About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
Doing Less, Better – The real competitive advantage of social enterprise, compared to traditional charities
Call me a natural skeptic. As the social enterprise movement has gained momentum over the past decade, launching new conferences and awards, I have found myself continually puzzling over what makes the enterprise approach different from traditional charities and nonprofits.Read more…
A Coming of Age for Impact Investing The new benchmark is an indication of a fast-growing and increasingly sophisticated impact investing industry
More than seven years ago, when the first conversations about creating the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) were percolating, very few would have characterized the impact investing community as a “market.” Outside of active sector-specific pockets, such as microfinance, individualRead more…
Are You Ready to Lead? The 11 Best Nonprofit Leadership Conferences of the Summer and Fall
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, conferences are part of the game. Sometimes you may feel that a conference is pulling you or your team away from more pertinent work, but attendance can have major value. ConferencesRead more…
3 Ways to Make Better Fundraising Asks
NonProfitEasy’s blog is all about fundraising tips and tricks that we think would be helpful for nonprofit professionals. That’s why we reached out to our friend Joe Garecht at The Fundraising Authority for some advice on how development professionals can make better fundraising asks!Read more…
National Resource Mobilization Seminar – August 2015
We are pleased to announce the next round of training programme for Christian leaders in resource mobilization through the National Resource Mobilisation Seminar. It will be held on the 21st and 22ndAugust 2015 at the CEO Centre. This seminar will benefit participants from Christian NGOs,Read more…
Building Movements, Not Organizations
Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely. In his 2007 book Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken described a growing global movement to create a healthy, humane world—work thatRead more…
Young, Smart and Want to Save Lives? Become a Banker, Says Philosopher
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Investment banking doesn’t rank highly on most people’s lists of ethical career choices, but according to one of the world’s most famous living philosophers, becoming a hot shot in finance may be the best wayRead more…
PHILANTHROPY (VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 3 | SUMMER 2015)
Lapham’s Quarterly intends to show that that history is the root of all education, scientific and literary as well as political and economic. The Summer 2015 edition of the publication is devoted to philanthropy. Some of the materials are alsoRead more…
The Joy of Sacrificing for the Future
South Florida is known for a lot of things…swamps, beaches, Disney World and retirees. But Idlewild Baptist Church is doing its part to make South Florida known for increasing levels of generosity. Case in point. A man in the churchRead more…